It is possible to upgrade the "hidden" memory module to 512MB, but it's not a project for the faint of heart. Nate -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Daniel Tellier <cdt at globaldsl.net> > No, I haven't. I'll look into it, though, and consider the > possibilities before I go back to Panther. > > Dan > > > On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Techpriest wrote: > > > Have you "tuned" OSX 4 to run better on the G3s? I found turning off > > many of the bells and whistles helped. > > > > Here is a good article with some tips to get all versions of OSX to > > run better on slower machines. > > > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020221092653868 > > > > On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Daniel Tellier wrote: > >> > >> I also have two G3 iBooks, a 700 Mhz, with an 80Gb HD, and an 800 > >> Mhz, with a 30 Gb HD, both with 640Mb RAM. I upgraded the 700Mhz to > >> OSX 10.4 Tiger and its performance slowed considerably. If I > >> remember correctly, Tiger is a significantly larger system than > >> Jaguar or Panther and seems to slow the older, slower systems down. > >> (More memory might alleviate this problem, but that is not an option > >> with these iBooks - they are both maxed on RAM). I'm planning to > >> move it back to Panther because of this. That is, of course, unless > >> some to the guys with more experience than me tell me I'm wrong and > >> what I did to slow down my iBook besides upgrading to Tiger. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > G4 mailing list > > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4